Rita Corday

Rita Corday was born Jeanne Paule Teipo-Ite-Marma Croset^[3] in Papeete, Tahiti, one of two children born to a Swiss-French father, Marc Paul Croset, traveling representative of a Swiss watch company, and an English mother, the former Lily Wigglesworth.^[4][5][6] She received theatrical training in Switzerland, Paris and Shanghai.^[7]

In 1942, RKO Pictures signed Corday to a long-term contract.^[8][7] She made her first film appearance in January 1943, in Hitler's Children.^[9][10] During her career in Hollywood, she appeared mostly in second features. In her later films she was billed as Paula Corday or Paule Croset.^[9]

In 1943, Corday announced her engagement to Navy Ensign Marshall Buell.^[11] She married producer Harold Nebenzal in 1947^[12][13] and, in 1954, retired to raise their two children.^[14] They divorced in 1961.^[15]

Corday died November 21, 1992,^[16] after surgery, from complications of diabetes.^[10] She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California.^{[citation needed]}